I wonder if the above is possible. I support some people on steady and get some exclusive posts for that. I get them per Email and can read them on the steady website.

Steady has subscription-specific RSS feeds, but only for podcasts as it seems (which also are the only results in my web searches).

Is anyone doing what I’m looking for? Some proxy that reads the emails and offers an RSS feed? (I’d rather not expose my imap credentials to a tool just to read some posts at a different place). Something that scrapes steady?

  • K3CAN@lemmy.radioEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I’m not sure what Steady is, but it sounds like FreshRSS can do what you want. If you can read the articles on the website, then you should be able to use FreshRSS to scrape the site and create a feed from it. For content behind a login, I’m pretty sure FreshRSS can handle basic-auth or you can provide it cookies.

    There’s also KillTheNewsLetter which does what you want the other way, by just converting the emails into an RSS feed. It can be self-hosted, but I haven’t tried it myself, though.

    • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.gardenOPEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      I forgot about KillTheNewsletter! That’s pretty much what I’m looking for I think, thanks!

      The articles are behind non-basic auth, the cookie possibility sounds interesting, but KTN sounds more straightforward for my use case. (Not on FreshRSS)

  • phlaym@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I use Inoreader as my RSS backend, they have that feature. They provide an email address, and everything that lands in that inbox pops up in my RSS feed. So I have a rule in my email inbox which forwards all their emails to the Inoreader address